Politics
- C. A. Smith (born 1895), British socialist and anti-communist activist
- Charles Abercrombie Smith, scientist, politician and civil servant of the Cape Colony
- Charles Aurelius Smith (1861–1916), former Governor of South Carolina
- Charles A. Smith (Canadian politician) (1845–?), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Charles Bennett Smith (1870–1939), U.S. Representative from New York
- Charles Brooks Smith (1844–1899), U.S. Representative from West Virginia
- Charles C. Smith (Virginia politician), mayor of Newport News, Virginia, 1924–1926
- Charles C. Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (1908–1970), Pennsylvania state representative
- Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908), American journalist and politician
- Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903), Georgia politician and writer under the nom de plume Bill Arp
- Charles K. Smith (1799–1866), American politician, lawyer, and first secretary of Minnesota Territory
- Charles L. Smith (1853–?), Canadian politician in New Brunswick
- Charles Lynwood Smith, Jr. (born 1943), U.S. federal judge
- Charles Manley Smith (1868–1937), governor of Vermont, 1935–37
- Charles P. Smith (born 1926), Wisconsin State Treasurer
- Charles Plympton Smith (born 1954), banker and former member of the Vermont House of Representatives
- Charles Rhodes Smith (1896–1993), Manitoba politician
- Charles Robert Smith (1887–1959) British colonial administrator and Governor of North Borneo
- Charlie Smith (Colorado), Chair of the College Republican National Committee
- Charles Smith (MP) (1756–1814), Member of Parliament for Saltash, 1796–1802
- Charles Harding Smith (1931–1997), loyalist leader in Northern Ireland
- Charles Napier Smith, politician in the Canadian province of Ontario
- Charles Culling Smith (1775–1853), British politician and courtier
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)